deanne - ProfilesArchive

About Me

i love to write...for me... so much beauty and brightness exists in the word...its aching realities...its incandescant fantasies...i've been published in various journals, magazines and newspapers, as well as online... i've read my poetry on radio and performed at many readings around the city...i'm currently working on my phd in writing, which is a labour of love, tears and the gentle scraping of my soul against clouds...i'm a sporadic blogger... constantly battling the repetition of days spent with words... and the tiny epiphanies worth writing...i work in the disabilities sector and find it inspiring and interesting... i love to work... i think it's good for my soul...i feel, that to be a writer, you must be IN life... to know the tiny intricacies of your actions and thoughts... to discover yourself in trains... at the letter box... waiting for a doctor with an x-ray...as well as experiencing the ethereal gloss of dreams (and the truths they reveal)... the tickle of humour... the buzz of creativity... the sweaty palms of love...i am inspired easily most days... by words... music... art... laughter...other days i'm frustrated by the pen... or the screen... i delete... erase... scribble... throw my hands in the air... i surrender!then jump right back in and keep plugging away...all i ever wanted was for you to see me in words...i expect a fairy tale ending...
"start your own revolution"
book of days is my collection of poemsâ€¦ violent words that chew on heartsâ€¦ it has a white rose and a stripteaseâ€¦ a shattered mind and a sincere hugâ€¦
below are some readings...
triangulum australe appeared in the november 2007 issue of westerly
dorado appeared in the winter 2007 issue of indigo
july 27 is from book of days
press link to hear triangulum australe

press link to hear dorado

press link to hear july 27

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

the imaginary you

Music:

everything Smashing Pumpkins, Beatles, Pink Floyd, Nina Simone - they're my all time favourites... but i also enjoy jazz and endless cheesy love ballads... other albums that i adore are: Counting Crows - August and Everything After, Headless Chickens - Stunt Clown, Pixies - Doolittle, Nick Cave - From Her To Eternity, Jane's Addiction - Ritual De Lo Habitual and Nothing's Shocking, George - Polyserena, Everything But The Girl - Amplified Heart, Jeff Buckley - Grace, Billy Bragg - Workers Playtime, Bjork - Post, Nirvana - Unplugged in New York, Red Hot and Blue - various singing Cole Porter, U2 - The Unforgettable Fire...

Movies:

the bombardment of media on our minds means that i have seen so many movies that they all start to blend into one giant montage.... some of the movies that stand out seperately from the others, that touched me, made me laugh, or cry are: Cinema Paradiso, Santa Sangre, Three Colours Blue, Strictly Ballroom, Liar Liar, Tank Girl, The Hours, Shrek, Shawshank Redemption, Bagdad Cafe, Team America, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind...

Books:

My Life - Lyn Hejinian, Writing is an Aid to Memory - Lyn Hejinian, An Angel at My Table - Janet Frame, The Carpathians - Janet Frame, Silas Marner - George Eliot, Griffin and Sabine series - Nick Bantock, The World is Round - Gertrude Stein, Lilian's Story - Kate Grenville.... many more... i love poetry but tend to skim and dip... at the moment, i am jumping between books on language poetry theory, Gertrude Stein, astronomy...

My Blog

refashioning the myth

found out today that my proposal to present at the Refashioning the Myth Conference in Melbourne in October has been accepted! very exciting! i'm presenting three poems around the Andromeda myth...
Posted by deanne on Thu, 08 May 2008 05:47:00 PST

stein

stein stein hurting my brain stein stein again and again (and again and again and again and again)
Posted by deanne on Wed, 30 Apr 2008 04:54:00 PST

altered words

i think when i finally finish i'm going to be like "sorry i have lost all social understanding and skills but i've spent three years looking at the same words day in day out and i've forgotten what th...
Posted by deanne on Wed, 23 Apr 2008 07:07:00 PST

Aries prose poem

below is aries... i'm thinking it may be a good way to start... since it's that first moment... into another... ...
Posted by deanne on Wed, 16 Apr 2008 05:31:00 PST

the hidden spaces

i haven't really written anything for a week& keep plying the words from my mind but they won't adhere& have started blog after blog& how can i condense... dilute& and retain ...
Posted by deanne on Sat, 12 Apr 2008 04:29:00 PST

goodbye Micky

this is a hard blog to write, so i’ll keep it brief. Micky, my god mother’s son, died at 7am this morning. he had multiple organ failures as a result of a terrible set of circumstances. it...
Posted by deanne on Sun, 30 Mar 2008 10:18:00 PST

reticulum prose poem

below is reticulum... i'm out of step with my schedule! it's alright... time warps... my little cocoon. ...
Posted by deanne on Wed, 12 Mar 2008 08:08:00 PST

one day at a time

i can only take each day as one sentence at a time... if i think about it too much... it's dizzying... moments of doubt are clouding where tears have already threatened to fall... ...
Posted by deanne on Sun, 09 Mar 2008 05:52:00 PST

monday borrowed light

i've been writing madly... discarding words... as they come they go... i saw borrowed light at the perth festival... incredible dancing... found myself entwined with shadows... wanted to stomp...
Posted by deanne on Mon, 03 Mar 2008 05:10:00 PST

zodiac

I finished a jigsaw of the zodiac Glued it to a board So the pieces couldn't move around Of course I say The zodiac has shifted Over time And then there's Ophiuchus Capricorns He replies W...
Posted by deanne on Mon, 25 Feb 2008 04:14:00 PST